was in love with you.
“okay! now that remus is all trained by the best player here” barty said, as the rest of them rolled their eyes . Sirius gave Barty a half jokey half warning look, and Evan just refused to meet his eyes.
“so, as i was saying. 6 of us. so teams of three. who wants to be on a team together?” barty asked
eventually, they sorted the teams out. barty, regulus and sirius versus evan james and remus.
“first to 50 points wins” and then he threw the quaffle into the air.
James and Barty made a beeline for it, while Remus went to a goal, as did Sirius.Evan and regulus stayed in the middle, in case barty or james needed help.
barty got the ball and passed it to regulus, then to barty again, till they got closer to the goal.
Regulus threw it. Remus tried to catch it , but ended up almost falling off his broom. and the ball went in! goal to their team.
barty pulled a face at remus, then laughed and flew off. it seemed they were going to be good friends now.
James started with the ball, and threw it to Evan, then James again, then regulus flew in between them and stole the ball. he winked at james as he flew ahead.
but james wasn’t having it. he sped up and caught up with regulus.
“sure you should be flying reg? aren’t you still a bit injured?” james asked mocking, knowing regulus would be annoyed by this.
“i’m just fine Potter. That waiter made me feel much much better” he replied, and relished on the angry look on james’ face.
“well yeah i can agree. when i’m feeling upset, evan reallyyy cheers me up. if you know what i mean.” he winked. regulus looked pissed. now that he was distracted, james took the ball from him and sped the other way. he passed the ball between him and evan, then threw it to the goal.
sirius missed when trying to save it, and the ball went in!
10-10.
james winked as he flew by regulus.
ah this was fun.
the game ended an hour later, Barty, Sirius and Regulus won by 10 points.
“this just proves who the better players are. it’s obviously us three” the three of them high fived, as the other three scoffed.
“yeah whatever you say.” james said “okay i’m
gonna go get changed.”
they all went into the changing room to get changed, except remus and sirius who just went back to the dorms to change there.
as they were changing, barty looked over at evan, who had just come out of the shower.
shit shit shit.
his hair was wet and he was shirtless. Of course, barty had seen him shirtless before, but wow. he still had a faint hickey which angered barty, but he couldn’t stop looking at evan.
he caught his eye and evan raised an eye brow.
“enjoying the show?” he mouthed
barty gave him the middle finger then walked off to get changed.
the only people that were left were regulus and james. regulus didn’t feel like talking to james, so he left suddenly without saying goodbye. james scoffed. asshole.
a few minutes later, he left aswell.
THE NEXT DAY
James was sat at the great hall, talking with Lily about her and Mary, quietly of course. They were talking in hushed tones next to eachother when someone cleared their throat.
“lily, can i talk to you?” Snape. didn’t think he had the nerve to come up here.
“no. no you cant. we spoke earlier and settled everything, so there’s no need to talk now.
goodbye” lily dismissed him without even looking up.
“lily that was over nothing. please, can we talk?” he pleaded.
“i said no severus, we aren’t friends anymore” she said, looking up at him this time.
“lily-“ he started
“she said no snivellus. now go away please” james said
“no one was talking to you Potter.” snape spat . suddenly, Mulciber and Avery turned up behind him, probably to see what all the yelling was about.
“Sev why even try to talk to her? she’s a filthy mud blood.” mulciber snared . lily flinched at the word.
“say that again mulciber” james got up from his seat.
“actually i’ll say it. she’s a filthy fucking mudblood. and you’re a blood traitor. just like the black brothers that you found and kept like
your dogs” avery added . by now, james was fuming.
“don’t talk about them. don’t talk about regulus like that alright?” he spat
“i can say what i want. especially about regulus. he’s a coward and a no good dickhead. he’s just a fucking cocksuc-“ James’ fist made contact with avery’s face in seconds. he kept punching him until mulciber tried to pull him off. he elbowed mulciber and then punched him instead. everyone had gathered around to see the fight. james was still punching avery when dumbledore arrived.
he pulled the two boys apart and took 50 house points each, and detention for 2 weeks.
avery , snape and mulciber were furious , and glared and james the whole time.
as james was leaving the great hall, he bumped into regulus.
“oh sor- james?!” regulus looked shocked
“hey reg..” james looked at him sheepishly.he had a bloody nose and a few cuts on his face.
“what the fuck happened?” he asked “ you know what, explain later . come with me.”
regulus grabbed james’ hand and pulled him towards the bathroom.
it was a prefects bathroom, so huge and very empty. Regulus conjured up a first aid kit. he then gave james a pointed look.
“explain.” he said shortly. he took a cloth and dipped it in anti-septic. he dabbed it onto james’ face.
james winced at the stinging. “well. uhm snape came over with avery and mulciber. then avery started talking about you and was saying some asshole things, so i punched him. mulciber jumped on me aswell and they both got a few hits in. but at least i won eh?”
regulus stopped suddenly.
“you hit him. both of them- for me?” he looked taken aback.
“yeah.. is that bad?” james asked
“well it’s just- no one has really ever done that for me before.” james beamed with pride. regulus’ defender.
the regulus punched him on the arm.
“ow! what was that for?”
“don’t do that again. don’t fight people on my behalf, it makes me look weak.”
“yeah regulus black can never stand to look like a human person.”
“what? no jam-“
“hm? what? i did something nice, i was standing up for you, and you tell me no because you don’t want to look weak?”
“yes i don’t. i am not a damsel who needs fucking saving james.”
“no but you’re my friend, and if someone is a dick you don’t want me to do anything?”
“exactly. don’t.”
“i am so sick of you acting like you’re about human emotion. you don’t appreciate anyone’s feelings and always toy with people’s feelings. i was so obviously in love with you and all you do is ignore me and hurt me more.”
“wait- in love with me? james..”
“no. no. you cant only just be realising this now. you know what, fuck this.” james left without another word, leaving regulus alone.
in love.
in love with me.
james was in love with me.
was in love.
was.
was.
what about now?